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ABUTILON Gærtn. [family MALVACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON Gærtn. [family MALVACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 205. —DC. Prod. i. 467, sect. Sidæ .
Information
Bractlets 0. Calyx 5-cleft. Column divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Ovary 5–∞-celled, each with 1–3 or rarely more ovules. Styles as many as the cells of the ovary. Ripe carpels united at the base or separate, rounded, beaked or truncate at the summit. Seeds reniform, ascending or horizontal. —Herbs or shrubs covered with down. Leaves cordate, angled or lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal.
Range
A widely distributed genus whose species are found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.
Notes
It is, however, only artificially separated from Sida in the carpellary awns being directed outwards, not upwards, and in the possession usually of more than one ovule in each cell of the ovary. This latter is, moreover, an uncertain mark of distinction. The number of carpels is generally greater in Abutilon than in Sida .In India, with the exception of A. fruticosum, the species of Abutilon expand their flowers in the evening; the Sidas, on the other hand, flower in the daytime.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON Gærtn. [family MALVACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 205. —DC. Prod. i. 467, sect. Sidæ .
Information
Bractlets 0. Calyx 5-cleft. Column divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Ovary 5–∞-celled, each with 1–3 or rarely more ovules. Styles as many as the cells of the ovary. Ripe carpels united at the base or separate, rounded, beaked or truncate at the summit. Seeds reniform, ascending or horizontal. —Herbs or shrubs covered with down. Leaves cordate, angled or lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal.
Range
A widely distributed genus whose species are found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.
Notes
It is, however, only artificially separated from Sida in the carpellary awns being directed outwards, not upwards, and in the possession usually of more than one ovule in each cell of the ovary. This latter is, moreover, an uncertain mark of distinction. The number of carpels is generally greater in Abutilon than in Sida .In India, with the exception of A. fruticosum, the species of Abutilon expand their flowers in the evening; the Sidas, on the other hand, flower in the daytime.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON Gærtn. [family MALVACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 205. —DC. Prod. i. 467, sect. Sidæ .
Information
Bractlets 0. Calyx 5-cleft. Column divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Ovary 5–∞-celled, each with 1–3 or rarely more ovules. Styles as many as the cells of the ovary. Ripe carpels united at the base or separate, rounded, beaked or truncate at the summit. Seeds reniform, ascending or horizontal. —Herbs or shrubs covered with down. Leaves cordate, angled or lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal.
Range
A widely distributed genus whose species are found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.
Notes
It is, however, only artificially separated from Sida in the carpellary awns being directed outwards, not upwards, and in the possession usually of more than one ovule in each cell of the ovary. This latter is, moreover, an uncertain mark of distinction. The number of carpels is generally greater in Abutilon than in Sida .In India, with the exception of A. fruticosum, the species of Abutilon expand their flowers in the evening; the Sidas, on the other hand, flower in the daytime.
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